Torbay is where our Singing for Wellness story started, when we launched the choir as an NHS-funded pilot in 2018. The initial project had a focus on the physical benefits of singing for people with respiratory conditions. It was so successful, that we received...
Wren Music launches new folk school! We’re thrilled to share the amazing news that we’ve received funding to launch a new weekly music and singing provision for young people in Okehampton. From 4 March, our Wren Music Folk School will run every Wednesday evening...
Five bell towers, one day, celebrating 100 years of bellringing … our singers Paul Wilson and Marilyn Tucker will be joining the Devon Association of Ringers as they mark their centenary in style. The ‘ringing and singing’ day is happening on Saturday 11 October 2025,...
Following the success of our Inclusive Ceilidhs project, we’re delighted to present an all-day event at Exeter Phoenix to share a ‘tool kit’ and to hear from others nationally and internationally. Inclusive Ceilidhs: Folk Dance Without Barriers is at the Exeter...
Join us on Wednesday 13 August, for a walk around the Okehampton Folk Trail – the unique 1.5-mile town trail illustrated by traditional regional folk songs which link local stories to eight locations along the route. Musicians from Wren Music will be joined by local...
Over five weeks during January and February, we worked with KS2 children at Moretonhampstead Primary School to help them write songs to celebrate the town’s 100th carnival which takes place later this year. Our professional musicians, Paul Wilson and Jon Dyer, spent...
Did you know that the word wassail derives from the Saxon ‘Waes Hael’, which was a greeting of goodwill meaning ‘be hale’ or ‘good health’. But wassailing goes back much further than Saxon times because it was originally a pagan ritual. On Sunday 12 January, people...
Centuries-old ‘village’ folk carols that were once a local tradition across the South West are being revived – thanks to a Wren Music project that aims to ensure they’re never lost again. Before today’s Christmas carols became popular, communities would sing carols...
This week, we’ve started working with students at Sidmouth College to create new folk songs, based around the stories of Sidmouth we’ve collected in conversations with local people. The Stories of Sidmouth project is a collaboration with Sidmouth Folk Festival, to...
We were honoured to be invited to Latvia this autumn to be part of a three-day folk festival celebrating the folk tradition. The festival, Dzīvā Mūzika, is hosted by the Skaņumāja folk organisation, who Wren Music have had an association with for many years. Over the...
They were once sung out in the streets and on the farms around the remote towns and villages of West Devon and now, the ‘West Devon Carols’ are being revived by Wren Music so that they can be heard again. The West Devon Carols are distinct to the district and became...
On Thursday 26 October Amy and Jon hosted an afternoon of free activities to celebrate Apple Day 2023. Despite the forecast of heavy rain, the event was well attended by families who were keen to get stuck in to the different songs, games and tasks. We began with the...
